Dictionary Applet

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:00:26 -0600
"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com> wrote:

> I make heavy use of the dictionary applet on my desktop.  I must look up
> ten words a day.  Over the last few days I've been getting an error saying
> that the server is no online.  I checked the preferences and it looks like
> it is using dict.org.   Does anyone know what the problem is?  Should I
> change servers?  Any suggestions, I'm in St. Louis MO, USA?  

I had some problems with the dict.org server some months ago, and found
that using

test.dict.org

worked fine. At the time , there was some kind of transition going on.

I just tried

dict -h test.dict.org foo

and that "test" server appears to work, still. You might try that. Seems
odd that you are having issues, as

dict foo     and    dict -h dict.org foo

work fine here from the command line. [ O.T. I was amused to see the
length of the entry for "foo" ;-)  ]

Peter